Moderator: Mike Hughes, LINX
A chance for IXP operators (and IXP users) to get together and discuss issues and challenges around IXP operations. We're going to talk about Per-neighbor BFD across public fabrics: best practices, interoperability, operational experience/results. Also included: Layer2 fabric convergence: RSTP, vendor ring protocols, PBT/PBB, VPLS.
Bio:
Mike Hughes is Chief Technical Officer for London Internet Exchange (LINX), where he is responsible for the organisation's overall technical strategy, core peering infrastructure, and operational performance, specialising in high-speed metro ethernet platforms.
With over 10 years of industry experience, Mike has become involved in activities within the community as a regular participant at industry for a (such as NANOG and RIPE meetings), and is a co-chair of the RIPE European Internet Exchange Working Group, as well as being a member of the UKNOF programme committee. He also sits on the Customer Technical Advisory Council of Extreme Networks.
